Sri Vasista
O Rama, in my opinion, the liberated one is he who engages himself in wordly works with a feeling 'I am the one who is activating and running the entire universe', with all his vasanas totally annihilated.
Some people depend on their body and get involved in wordly works. Such people oscillate between heaven and hell.
Some people perform prohibited actions and (sometimes) act with disinterest and disgust. Such people go from one hell to another, from fear to fear, and from one grief to another grief.
Some people are bound by their vasanas and destiny, and take animal bodies after taking an immobile body (like tree)
Some people are blessed. They inquire into mind, rent the net of desires and reach the Supreme state.
Some of them are 'rajasa sattwicas'. They go though several births (of a high order) and in the present one get liberated.
Such people grow like full moon even from the time of their birth. Prosperity chases them like the charm of wild jasmines during rainy season.
O Rama of mighty mind, all kinds of arts, sciences and learnings come to them with ease like pearls gathering in a bamboo.
Honor, veneration, friendliness, charm, generosity, gentlenss, compassion, learning - all these qualities take refuge in them like ladies who seek refuge in their chambers.
Whatever works they do, whether profitable or not, they go about them with an attitude of equality. They neither grieve nor feel joyful.
All divisions decline in them like darkness which departs on the arrival of day. All qualities attain purity in them like autumn clouds.
Such people of elegant behavior are sought by everyone. It is like the sweet tunes of flute attracting the wild animals.
Good qualities follow such people from birth like cranes crave and follow a cloud.
Even gurus seek such people of good qualities and set them on the sacred path of spiritual discrimination.
A person of such qualities will realise the one imperishable Self on enquiry and development of dispassion.
With a quiet mind he grows on the path with beautiful inquiry (into Self). To enlighten himself he starts reflecting (on truth) within his mind.
Such people put to sleep the wild animal of mind and set it later on the path of the quality-less Supreme
These men of high qualities reach the perfect state from their human state by developing the gem of mind though their effort on the path set by their teachers. They shine in that state for a long time.
